Gioachino Rossini Quotes

#1. You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.

Lawrence Kasdan

#2. Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.

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#3. Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

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#4. Tous les genres sont bons,
Hors le genre ennuyeux."
(All genres are good,
Except the boring one.

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#5. Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

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#6. We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do.

Michele Bachmann

#7. Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

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#8. One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

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#9. Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

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#10. Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

Christopher McQuarrie

#11. Eh, my dear fellow, order is wealth

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#12. The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

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#13. I don't really make records chronologically.

Regina Spektor

#14. If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario

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#15. and tonight we held each
other, one last time,
like a dance to a
slow song
on an empty
floor,
underneath a single
disco ball
in front of
no one
at all

Phil Volatile

#16. There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

Will Rogers

#17. It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn't control.

Heather Demetrios

#18. If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

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#19. Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

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#20. How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

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#21. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Roger Miller

#22. Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument ...

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#23. Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

Shana Alexander

#24. I am writing like an angel

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#25. Music is a kind of harmonious language.

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#26. It takes work to increase and multiply every resource we see around us.

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

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#28. A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are.

Candace Bushnell

#29. Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Gioachino Rossini

#30. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

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